POLITICS FROM TOP SCOOPS Howard’s End:
NZ, Seventh State Of Australia Anne Else: High
Time For New Adoption Law Scoop Is In The House:
Today’s Questions And Answers Humanitarian
Hercules Mission Defended Electricity Industry
Reforms Announced Govt Succumbs To Brain Drain
Panic

JUST
POLITICS

Sutton On Indian Trade Mission

- Trade Negotiations Minister Jim Sutton is to lead a trade
mission to India, after attending the APEC Ministerial
Meeting in Brunei in November. He will also visit Nepal.
See... Minister
To Lead Trade Mission To India [1]

-
“The Prime Minister's admission that some of her Ministers
are 'sitting ducks' who it 'wouldn't be wise' to expose to
media scrutiny says a lot about the way this Government
operates,” National's Roger Sowry said today. See... Clark
Hiding Lame Duck Ministers From Scrutiny [1]

- Conservation Minister Sandra
Lee has announced that an ambitious project to eradicate the
last remaining animal pest—Norway rats—from Campbell Island
so DOC can return some rare species to live there is to be
implemented. See... Rats!
[1]

- Foreign
Minister Phil Goff said today that he will be declining an
invitation to address the World Council of Whalers'
conference in Nelson this November. See... Goff
Will Not Attend Whaling Conference [1]

- The Minister of Labour,
Margaret Wilson has approved the interim Good Faith Code.
The code provides guidance under the Employment Relations
Act to the parties in an employment relationship. See... Good
Faith Codes Approved [1]

POLITICS
FROM TOP SCOOPS

Howard’s End: NZ, Seventh State
Of Australia

- Earlier this week I wrote on Scoop
that we should drop the charade about monetary union with
Australia and focus of the real debate - New Zealand the
seventh State of Australia. The column created widespread
public and media interest - so let's consider the final
jump. See... Howard’s
End: NZ, Seventh State Of Australia [1]

- At long
last, an official report on adoption law reform has grasped
most of the biggest problems with this 45-year-old
legislation, and put forward some reasonably sound remedies.
But when the Law Commission's report came out last week, it
made few headlines. See... Anne
Else: The Future Of Adoption [1]

- Dunedin
based National MP Katherine Rich has confirmed that it was
her request which lead to a Government decision to divert an
Air Force Hercules aircraft back to Apia in Samoa to pick up
a civilian. The Young Nationals said ACT MP Rodney Hide’s
attack over the incident was a blatant, insensitive attempt
at political mileage. See... No
Apologies Over Air Force Incident [1] and Insensitive
Politics From Hide Over Hercules [2]

Alastair Thompson is the co-founder of Scoop. He is of Scottish and Irish extraction and from Wellington, New Zealand. Alastair has 24 years experience in the media, at the Dominion, National Business Review, North & South magazine, Straight Furrow newspaper and online since 1997. He is the winner of several journalism awards for business and investigative work.

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